On this day ...
11 April 1770
Endeavour Voyage Maps
James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth
1770
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11. Calm: myself went out a shooting and killd Diomedea exulans and impavida, saw profuga; Procellaria melanopus, Velox, Oceanica, Vagabunda and longipes, Nectris fuliginosa, which I find to be the same bird as was seen by the Master and Tupia on the 6th. Took up with dipping net Mimus volutator, Medusa pelagica, Dagysa cornuta, Phyllodoce velella and Holothuria obtusata, of which last an Albatross that I had shot dischar[g]d a large quantity, incredible as it may appear that any animal should feed upon this blubber, whose stings innumerable give a much more Acute pain to a hand which touches them than Nettles.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 231, 2004
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